DDR3 motherboard sales are climbing quickly as DDR4 and DDR5 prices continue to rise
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Rising memory prices are pushing PC builders to look for cheaper alternatives, and some are turning back to much older platforms.

Rising memory prices are pushing PC builders to look for cheaper alternatives, and some are turning back to much older platforms.

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 days ago

      I’m still using a DDR3 system for my home server, so I wouldn’t call it exactly useless.
      It runs on my old computer hardware, with an Intel i5-4670k and 16 GB of RAM.

      For anything that doesn’t need to be the most performant, it could be a decent way to save some money on the RAM at the moment.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        It’s especially worth it if you have a lot of hoarder tech friends. I could go ask them all right now and get parts for a DDR3 era system for free from their closets. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      We are past the time when ten years made something “ancient” in computers and you seem to have very little experience using them.